Money Quote by Sarah Churchwell

In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline - on the course,…

— Sarah Churchwell

In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism,…

— Sarah Churchwell

Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure…

— Sarah Churchwell

Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.

— Sarah Churchwell

Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.

— Sarah Churchwell

“The Volstead Act, prohibiting the production, sale, and transport of “intoxicating liquors,” became law on January 17, 1920. Prohibition didn’t prohibit much, and incited…

— Sarah Churchwell

Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.

— Sarah Churchwell

“History resembles a guest list, in that sense, of the invited and the gate-crashers, the people, for whom we have been waiting, and those…

— Sarah Churchwell

Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and…

— Sarah Churchwell

Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the…

— Sarah Churchwell

Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The…

— Sarah Churchwell

History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have been waiting, and those…

— Sarah Churchwell